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Michel Host

ミシェル・オスト

Misheru Osuto

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1942 （Veurne, West Flanders, Belgium）
Died
2021-06-06 （Paris） age 79
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Paris

Career

Occupations
writer, teacher
Active Years
1983-2021
Affiliations
Revue des deux mondes, Regards, L’Art du bref

Education

Sorbonne
Hispanic studies
Country: France
Taught language and literature of the Spanish Golden Age

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1986
Work: Valet de nuit
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: 受賞
Grand Prize of the news of the S.G.D.L.
2003
Organization: S.G.D.L.
Result: 受賞
Book Prize in Picardy
1996
Work: Les attentions de l'enfance
Result: 受賞
Prix Robert Walser
1984
Work: L'Ombre, le Fleuve, l'Eté
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Valet de nuit

1986 novel

Second novel that won the Prix Goncourt.

L'Ombre, le Fleuve, l'Eté

1983 novel

Debut novel. Won Prix Robert Walser.

Les Cercles d'or

1989 novel

Bibliography

  • L'Ombre, le Fleuve, l'Eté (1983)
  • Valet de nuit (1986)
  • Les Cercles d'or (1989)
  • La Maison Traum (1990)
  • Peter Sis, l'imagier du temps (1996)
  • La Soirée (1989, reprinted 2002)
  • Images de l'Empire (1991, reprinted 2001)
  • Forêt Forteresse, conte pour aujourd'hui (1993)
  • L'Affaire Grimaudi (1995)
  • Les attentions de l'enfance (1996)
  • Déterrages/villes (1997)
  • Journal de vacances d'une chatte parisienne (1996)
  • Roxane (1997)
  • Graines de pages (1999)
  • Alentours, petites proses (2001)
  • Regards (1999)
  • Poème d'Hiroshima (2005)
  • Le petit chat de neige (2007)

Health

  • COVID-19
    2021年
    Cause of death

Legacy

French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1986.

Trivia

  • Born in Belgium, French writer.
  • Active in short stories after winning Goncourt.
  • Died of COVID-19 in 2021.